LACK

You sure love your needle scalers don't you?


Works very well on undercoating for sure. If I had to do another one id use a scaler for sure. The front rails had super thin paint, took maybe 10 minutes to get the entire portion stripped with a grinder. If I would have thought to use one back when I did my my stiffies it would have made my life much easier.

Basslicks

The heck you say....

Basslicks

Lack you're basically doing everything to your Jeep that I'm planning on doing to mine.... kinda like a "coming attraction"

Rogue4x4

...and yeah, I love that needle scaler. Makes my life at work SO much easier. Cuts through rust, scale, dirt, paint, slag, you name it, in minutes. One of my favorite tools of all time.

Basslicks

Takes one to know one

Rogue4x4

LMAO, I knew what it was instantly!

Basslicks

Oh, I was counting on it lol.... you oughtta print off a picture of one of the needles and tape it to the side of your scaler

Jeepology

Lmao

LACK

I actually thought about halo when peligro said it was a needler. Lmao

Buncha nerds in this thread..... it's awesome! Lol

Basslicks

lol.... yeeeeeessssssss.....

TFitzPat87

Hahaha, from metal, welding, and dirt at night to nerdin out hard in the morning! Love this place!

Basslicks

Truly is a place like no other!

LACK

Was nursing a hangover this morning so I didn't get a ton done. I did however get the passenger side c-gussets and LCA mount burned in.

I really need my OTA track bar bracket to come in so I can get that fitted and integrated into the truss. Should be here tomorrow or tuesday hopefully, shipped out from BLEE last week.

Axle is a bit of an ugly duckling at the moment with partial rust, shiny bare metal and chipping paint. That is all going to change soon.

The c gussets tie in nicely with the LCA mounts giving everything even more strength. Also drilled a hole in the bottom of the lower C gussets to let any type of water drain out of there. I don't wheel in the mud often, but there are some gaps at the top of the C gusset I could see moisture getting into.



Starting to look like an axle again. Got the driver side ball joints pressed in as well.





I spy a jeep in the background.

Basslicks

Lookin' good man

LACK

Got the knuckles drilled out to 5/8 for the heim steering, then super clean & wire wheel to get them nice n clean.

Primed them with some self etching primer and painted. They look purdy now.







Close up of the paint, has some very small metallic flake in it and comes out very dark charcoal color. Should be a subtle contrast to the black axle and will match my steering.